Umi Tea Sets Blog

Teas which are light and offer good flavor. Set in the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, Indonesia is a chain of islands that stretch from Malaysia to Papua...

China has the widest range of teas in the world which are of the finest quality, with many still made by hand. Commercial cultivation of tea in China began well...

The Nilgiris, or Blue Mountains, are a stunningly beautiful range of hills that stretch down the southwestern tip of India from the state of Kerala, another tea-growing area, to the...

Tucked away in the foothills of the snow- covered Himalayan mountains of northeast India lies the hill resort of Darjeeling 6,000 feet above sea-level and in the most spectacular setting,...

Teas from the highest region on the island are described as the "champagne" of Ceylon teas. Until the 1860s, the main crop produced on the island of Sri Lanka, then...

Today, tea is grown on both sides of the Brahmaputra Valley, the largest black tea- producing region of the world. In 1993, approximately 155 years after those first chests of...

One of the world's largest producers of tea, with more than 13,000 gardens. A Dutch explorer who sailed round the Cape of Good Hope to Goa on India's west coast...

Quality of tea varies according to the altitude and plucking standards. German settlers were the first to grow tea at Amari and Rungwa in Tanzania in about 1905, but commercial...

Zulu tea has found a niche market in Europe and the U.S. The first tea plants in South Africa,brought from Kew Gardens in England, were planted south of the Limpopo...

A recent program of clonal replanting has led to an improvement in quality. Malawi is Africa's second most important tea producer after Kenya .The first tea was introduced, to what...

Quality teas grown in the lush Kenya highlands. The first tea bushes were planted at Limuru in Kenya in 1903 and production increased slowly in the highlands of Kericho and...

Interesting teas for connoisseurs who are looking for something a little eccentric. Between 1884 and 1914, German planters cultivated numerous crops which included coffee, oil palm, tobacco, kole nuts, and...